The New Pictures, Jan. 18, 1943

Commandos Strike at Dawn (Columbia) is the coolest, most workmanlike job
of fighting that Hollywood has yet produced. This authentic picture of
the devil dogs of this war has none of the phony nourishes or mushy
fantasy of most Hollywood war films; in it is hardly a melodramatic
line. A Norway raid is carried out with letter-perfect realism. Yet for
all its realism the raid is strangely unexciting.

One reason is that Commandos unwisely attempts to combine two pictures
in one. Picture No. 2the raidis overshadowed by Picture No. 1the
stirring story of...